Moments where somebody complains "I Was Beaten by a Girl" in Anime and Manga.
- Averted in Attack on Titan. Eren is soundly trounced by Annie during combat training, and is immediately impressed with her skill. This leads to them becoming close friends, with her teaching him how to fight.
- Bleach: Nnoitora admits that the main reason he hated Nelliel so much, to the point that he ambush attacked her in a way that resulted in her losing her memories and being turned into a child, is that he couldn't stand being Always Second Best to a woman.
- In Codename: Sailor V Takurō Ōtaku refuses to believe his high scores have been trounced by a girl, even accusing Minako of being a man in disguise. It ends with her kicking him to the curb after he lifted her skirt.
- Dragon Ball:
- Averted when Vegeta is thoroughly defeated by Android 18, he was more concerned with the fact that he could be beaten at all despite finally becoming a Super Saiyan. He was actually angrier that it was a "machine" that did it than a girl.
- Interestingly, Piccolo at least thinks Vegeta has this attitude, if he doesn't have it himself.Piccolo: "He was soundly beaten, by a female at that! I can't imagine what that could have done to his pride.
- Gunslinger Girl
- Fourteen year-old cyborg girl Triela is training with the GIS special forces and knocks a soldier twice her height on his back. Their commander Major Salles naturally brings up this trope and orders him to do an immediate ten-kilometer run. He then proceeds to knock Triela down, twice, despite having no cyborg enhancements.
- The reason Triela is training with the GIS is because she's depressed over losing to teenage assassin Pinocchio. When she's guarding Mimi, a normal girl her age, only to (temporarily) lose her, Triela notes the trope, but also acknowledges that she has to learn to move past her mistakes.
- A literal version when Jean Croce uses his cyborg Rico to beat information out of a terrorist bomber, likely for the additional Mind Screw factor of being pummeled by a small girl.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: In Kisara's backstory, it's revealed that she once won a Tae Kwon Do tournament, and her opponent (a boy) claimed to his friend that he let her win because she was a girl, though it's heavily implied he was saying this to save face at the humiliation.
- Little House with an Orange Roof has Rina bragging that she beat all the boys in her class at arm wrestling. Youta is shown looking humiliated with a note indicating he was one of the losers.
- Magical Girl Kakeru-kun exploits this trope and inverts it. One of the protagonists proves herself to be an extremely skilled fighting game player, and cannot get enough of the frustrated expressions her male opponents make when they get cocky fighting her (thinking she's an overeager fifth grade boy) until they leave frustrated when they realize they've been bested by a little girl. Conversely, as much as they don't like being beaten by girls, the arcade guys also don't like winning against girls too much since it makes them cry (as Kakeru unintentionally proves). His opponent deliberately loses a match so he can be satisfied winning against a tough opponent just once.
- One episode of Lucky Star happens in an arcade, where Konata beats several people in succession. When her opponents try to see who it is that beat them and realize it's a very young-looking girl, they quickly leave.
- Deconstructed for surprisingly chilling effect (considering its motivation) in the 4Kids Entertainment dub of One Piece: a man gets defeated in a sword fight by Kuina, and is so embarrassed about being bested by a little girl that he gathers his friends and beats her to the point that she is disabled for the rest of her life.
- In Phoenix, Oguna's men are visibly upset when Kajika beats them in a fight. She even invokes this, mocking them for letting a woman win.
- Samurai High School: One of the guys Tsukiko defeated had this reaction upon learning it was her and not her brother who defeated him.
- Episode 46 of the first season of You're Under Arrest! follows a boy who decides to quit a kendo class because he was defeated by a girl. Although in this case, it has more to do with the fact it's a girl he likes, but refuses to admit it.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Rio quickly had the boys at school fawning over her after she got out of the hospital... Until she beat them all at soccer by herself. After that, everyone learned to avoid her.
